UPDATE: Fox News Reports: Obama May Skip Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Fox News is reporting that Obama will go to Oslo, Copenhagen to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, he may give a speech on global warming when he accepts it, but he may not attend the Climate Change Conference.

The Fox News article below states that he may not attend because it is not a "head of state" event. Another reason listed is that he does not have anything to offer from the U.S. in the way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions since the Cap & Tax legislation has not passed. He is sending Todd Stern, his top climate change negotiator. It doesn't look good that a "successor" treaty to the Kyoto Pact (which the U.S. did not sign) is going to happen at this time.

This is good news, if it's true.

Fox News.com article: Obama Likely To Skip Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
By Major Garrett

President Obama is "leaning toward not going" to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, a senior administration official told Fox News.

The current thinking in the administration is that since the conference is not a "head of state" event, Obama will not attend. Obama will be accepting the Nobel Prize in Oslo on the second day of the Copenhagen conference and may use that platform to address climate change issues.

On big reason the Copenhagen conference is not a "head of state" event is because of the slow progress of climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate. Absent Senate passage of a climate change bill mandating a cap-and-trade system, Obama will have nothing to bring to Copenhagen as part of a U.S.-led effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a factor likely to undermine global efforts to curb those emissions.

"It's not likely to turn into a head of state meeting given the current legislative trajectory in the U.S. vis-a-vis energy policy," the administration official said.

Negotiations with India and China on setting and enforcing carbon pollution limits have become bogged down, complicating global efforts to produce a successor treaty to the Kyoto Pact the U.S. never ratified.

Todd Stern, the president's top climate change negotiator, will attend the Copenhagen conference for the administration.

Other top officials may join Stern if more progress is achieved in the coming weeks, an official said.
Of course, Obama could always change his mind and lean the other way.  I don't trust these guys for one second.  I wonder if they are playing this down because they know Glenn Beck is planning on exposing the Treaty of Copenhagen for what it really is...a means to advance towards globalization.  The state-controlled media doesn't talk about it and if Glenn covers it, more and more people will become informed and begin fighting against it.


Let's keep up-to-date on this one.


UPDATE:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6888165.ece

And, of course, it wouldn't be "fair" unless Prez BO blamed President Bush for America's "foot-dragging"...(I say, thank you President Bush):

Excerpt:
The gap between hopes of what Mr Obama can do and reality was on show this week when another Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rajendra Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said he thought the President should be doing more. Instead, the Obama Administration is seeking to lower expectations before Copenhagen by drawing attention to its short tenure in office, the long years of US foot-dragging on climate change under his predecessor and recent progress on domestic climate change legislation.